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From: [email protected] (Chris Tapio)
Secret World (Peter Gabriel)
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(Disclaimer: no guarantee of correctness or completeness of transcription
is given with respect to 7ths, inversions, fingering, and choice of #/b.
Any major blunders, questions and suggestions to [email protected] ;^)
Verse:
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I stood in this unsheltered place
D D/B
‘Til I could see the face behind the face
Bm/G A D
All that had gone before had left no trace
D D/B
Chorus:
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Down by the railway siding
G D/Gb
In our secret world, we were colliding
G D/A
All the places we were hiding love
G A/Gb A D/B
What was it we were thinking of?
G A D
Underwater, unaware
And the plane flies through the air [chorus] Did you think I didn’t have to choose it
That I alone could win or lose it
In all the places we were hiding love
What was it we were thinking of? [verse] In this house of make believe
Divided in two like Adam and Eve
You put out and I receive [chorus]
Bridge:
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[D bass riff]
Oh the wheel it is turning spinning round and round
D D
And the house it is crumbling but the stairways stand
D D
……………………..
C/D D
With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame
D D
Whatever it is, we are all the same
D D
Making it up in our secret world
C/D D
Making it up in our secret world
C/D D
Making it up in our secret world
C/D D
Shaking it up
C G
Breaking it up
C G
Making it up in our secret world
C G D
On a wing, on a prayer
In this state of disrepair [chorus]
Ssh, listen….
End Section:
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D G/D D, C/D G/D D
[repeat to end]—
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// What makes mass society so difficult to bear //
// is not the number of people involved…but //
// the fact that the world between them has lost //
// its power to gather them together, to relate //
// and to separate them. — Hannah Arendt, 1958 //
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// Chris Tapio [email protected] //
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